supercity36
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georgie thompson or some of the ogres they got on setanta... i think i know who im sticking to
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Sky vs Setanta
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ocimpean said:In US, on Dish Network, I have Foxsoccer option or Setanta. I guess Sky is only on cable in UK, no?
satellite
Setanta will be ok, The league needs the two rival's bidding for the rights or else the price of the product will go down, due to no competion. Setanta has only been going a short while, anyway its not only in England these TV companies make there money. Setanta sell the product to Fox, in the us and also to Aisia thats why the Sat late kick off are of the Rags, every Fecking week.
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hotdel1 said:Setanta will be ok, The league needs the two rival's bidding for the rights or else the price of the product will go down, due to no competion. Setanta has only been going a short while, anyway its not only in England these TV companies make there money. Setanta sell the product to Fox, in the us and also to Aisia thats why the Sat late kick off are of the Rags, every Fecking week.
OK, So why are they going bump?
What annoyed me about the judge who deciced to give other companys, other than sky a chance to show football was "It will make it more affordable for the normal fan" judge dribble anounced
No it fucking dosnt all Setanta got was the old pay per view matches which used to cost me £35 buying on a pre-season deal and the most i paid was £50 and that ended up being for more than the 50 games advertised.
Or £12.99 a month ??????????????
As anybody with a basic inteligence for mathamatics can see, blatently not cheaper for the normal fan.
On a side note i have just quit setanta and had 2 months of harasement via phone calls and text messages.
When we phoned up to cancel, they then offered it us for half price so we accepted this, so with no great surprise they deducted the full amount at the next payment stage.
So we rang back and said we will just quit now thanks, but low and behold we had "signed" a 3 month contract at half price!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways we cancelled the direct debit and argued the case with them and yesterday they actualy refunded half the fee back lol
Cunts i hope they go under, i will never sign up to them again.
Sorry for the long post.
No it fucking dosnt all Setanta got was the old pay per view matches which used to cost me £35 buying on a pre-season deal and the most i paid was £50 and that ended up being for more than the 50 games advertised.
Or £12.99 a month ??????????????
As anybody with a basic inteligence for mathamatics can see, blatently not cheaper for the normal fan.
On a side note i have just quit setanta and had 2 months of harasement via phone calls and text messages.
When we phoned up to cancel, they then offered it us for half price so we accepted this, so with no great surprise they deducted the full amount at the next payment stage.
So we rang back and said we will just quit now thanks, but low and behold we had "signed" a 3 month contract at half price!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways we cancelled the direct debit and argued the case with them and yesterday they actualy refunded half the fee back lol
Cunts i hope they go under, i will never sign up to them again.
Sorry for the long post.
hotdel1 said:Setanta will be ok, The league needs the two rival's bidding for the rights or else the price of the product will go down, due to no competion. Setanta has only been going a short while, anyway its not only in England these TV companies make there money. Setanta sell the product to Fox, in the us and also to Aisia thats why the Sat late kick off are of the Rags, every Fecking week.
They've just defaulted on a payment to the SPL. Things are getting tight for them.
kp789
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Sky, just compare sky sports news with setanta sports news and you can see which is better
It needs saying that SKY are masters of the oversell. "Survival Sunday"? Does anybody in their right mind really think that SKY would have given two hoots about the bottom feeders if their beloved manyoo n 'pool were still "slugging it out" for
the "Premiership" (or "league", as it's still called in my house)?
Their pandering to Sore Alex (EVERY Friday lunchtime, during the season, is devoted to his latest pearls of wisdom) is embarassing.
If Andy Gray said so, then it must be true. Andy will never ever ever criticise a current England international, Manyoo, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsene Wenger, Villa, Everton, Rangers or a fellow Scot. Other than that, it's all fair game.
Most of their pundits (yes, you Jamie, Butch Wilkins, Ruud and Platt -erpuss) are so busy trying to endorse SKY's overselling of the product that they're terrified of breaking ranks and actually delivering a meaningful insight. If you ever listened to Graeme Souness's thoughtful and considered opinions during Champion's League coverage on RTE (Irish TV) on a Tuesday night, you could be forgiven for thinking that he has a sychophantic, windbag of a twin brother that pops up on SKY's all-singing, all-dancing, love-in on Wednesdays. The man has actually admitted to "having more freedom" on RTE.
Soccer Saturday (which is essentially radio on tv) is a triumph of the genius that is Jeff Stelling. Honestly, how any man can make the whinging of Phil Thompson, the unintelligibe meanderings of Paul Merson and whatever that is that passes for conversation from Le Tissier (I'll excuse Champagne Charlie because he is actually witty on occasion) and turn it all into three, four or even five hours of more than passable entertainment - and still not win a BAFTA, TV NOW award etc. is beyond me.
Soccer AM? Lost it's edge long ago. I'll stay in bed, thanks.
SKY Sports News? Addictive and, at times, unmissable TV. Although, it has to be said that they're bastards for dragging the b*******s out of even the most mundane stories at times.
As for Setanta? Every day, in every way, they make SKY look brilliant.
I hate it when City are on that channel because they never give us any credit for anything. I try not to watch other football on that channel because they're just so sloppy with their links, camera work etc (even the ads look like something out of a 1970's cinema).
I hate their Magner's League coverage (commentary is long-winded and the analysis makes their football coverage seem slick).
Their Sports News channel is like something a transition year class would cobble together.
I think it's unfair that they've got exclusive rights to some England world cup games (no satellite channel should have that).
I do hope they survive though because I quite like being able to watch Gaelic Games when I'm abroad (even if their coverage is (again) inferior in every way to RTE's).
the "Premiership" (or "league", as it's still called in my house)?
Their pandering to Sore Alex (EVERY Friday lunchtime, during the season, is devoted to his latest pearls of wisdom) is embarassing.
If Andy Gray said so, then it must be true. Andy will never ever ever criticise a current England international, Manyoo, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsene Wenger, Villa, Everton, Rangers or a fellow Scot. Other than that, it's all fair game.
Most of their pundits (yes, you Jamie, Butch Wilkins, Ruud and Platt -erpuss) are so busy trying to endorse SKY's overselling of the product that they're terrified of breaking ranks and actually delivering a meaningful insight. If you ever listened to Graeme Souness's thoughtful and considered opinions during Champion's League coverage on RTE (Irish TV) on a Tuesday night, you could be forgiven for thinking that he has a sychophantic, windbag of a twin brother that pops up on SKY's all-singing, all-dancing, love-in on Wednesdays. The man has actually admitted to "having more freedom" on RTE.
Soccer Saturday (which is essentially radio on tv) is a triumph of the genius that is Jeff Stelling. Honestly, how any man can make the whinging of Phil Thompson, the unintelligibe meanderings of Paul Merson and whatever that is that passes for conversation from Le Tissier (I'll excuse Champagne Charlie because he is actually witty on occasion) and turn it all into three, four or even five hours of more than passable entertainment - and still not win a BAFTA, TV NOW award etc. is beyond me.
Soccer AM? Lost it's edge long ago. I'll stay in bed, thanks.
SKY Sports News? Addictive and, at times, unmissable TV. Although, it has to be said that they're bastards for dragging the b*******s out of even the most mundane stories at times.
As for Setanta? Every day, in every way, they make SKY look brilliant.
I hate it when City are on that channel because they never give us any credit for anything. I try not to watch other football on that channel because they're just so sloppy with their links, camera work etc (even the ads look like something out of a 1970's cinema).
I hate their Magner's League coverage (commentary is long-winded and the analysis makes their football coverage seem slick).
Their Sports News channel is like something a transition year class would cobble together.
I think it's unfair that they've got exclusive rights to some England world cup games (no satellite channel should have that).
I do hope they survive though because I quite like being able to watch Gaelic Games when I'm abroad (even if their coverage is (again) inferior in every way to RTE's).